Jawaharlal Nehru attended the Indian Science Congress each year, set up the IITs alongside the cultural academies, and managed to locate scientific temper in Indian culture.

Nehru’s focus on the need to develop a ‘scientific temper’, a term he coined in his Discovery of India, which the Constitution of India reiterated in article 51A, laying down the fundamental ...

Interestingly, everything I read about Jawaharlal Nehru this year was less about ... works such as Glimpses of World History and Discovery of India. It had helped him shape the policies for ...